Catherine Nesci is Professor of French, Comparative Literature, and Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara. She mainly works on urban modernity and space studies, focusing on male and female writers who locate the self in the fleeting facets of Western cities. She is currently writing the contemporary sequel to her 2007 book, Le Flâneur et les Flâneuses, which dealt with French Romanticism and the pre-Baudelairian flâneur figure; in her current book-manuscript, she examines women writers’ contributions to the genre of the literary walk through explorations of cityscapes haunted by the past and the process of remembrance. Her other lines of inquiry include the relations between literature and the press in modern France and the Weimar Republic. She teaches on various visual, print, and graphic configurations of trauma, memory, and history, and is also interested in literature, human rights, and genocidal violence.